The name 'control group' is fraught with ironies: A nod to our goals of research and experimentation, to our desire to connect scientific and artistic processes, to a proposal that perhaps we are the uninflected ones, the lab rats receiving sugar pills instead of untested experimental compounds.

There’s a lot of listening, participating, and self-examination needed right now. There are also things that I think every American needs to say out loud. We stand firmly and humbly with the peaceful protesters and their call for foundational changes to how we as a community and a country live out our values and work toward a more just society.